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Michelle Renee Kidwell
6 min readSep 7, 2022

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Like Letters Written in the Sand: Part Thirty Six

Thanks to Juliane Liebermann @jule_42 for making this photo available freely on Unsplash 🎁 https://unsplash.com/photos/hGNMJB7A33Q

Anna-leis loved watching Sasha and Sonya explore, loved watching them grow into their own in a matter of weeks they had grown past the shy and timid little girls they were when they had first become part of their family, they were happy and bubbly girls who made Anna-leis and Clarence’s world brighter.

But there were things Anna-leis wished she could do for her little girls, like piggy back rides, teaching them to ride a bike, or skate. But for all she couldn’t teach them there was far more that she could. If she dwelled on what she couldn’t do, there was no way she could give the girls everything she needed. Besides the girls didn’t mind thatAnna-leis couldn’t give them piggy back rides, what mattered was she tucked them into bed every night, read them a story and prayed with them.

Clarence helped the girls with the things that Anna-leis couldn’t, things like piggy back rides, and riding a bike, they wanted her to ride with them sometimes but they said nothing knowing that it made her sad, most of the time their Mother was happy, sometimes even silly, but sometimes the things she couldn’t do made her sad, even though it wasn’t her fault, so they tried not to make her to sad, although Mom and Dad said it was…

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Michelle Renee Kidwell
Michelle Renee Kidwell

Written by Michelle Renee Kidwell

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